Skiing Technique / Photo Critique Thread

[JimG.]

http://forums.alpinezone.com/module...ame=gallery&file=index&include=view_photo.php

Here's a pic of me in the woods at Smuggs. I couldn't get the embedded image to work and I figured the big pic would be better anyway. Fire away...

Not much to pick on there dude...looks sweet.

The only minor thing I'd say is to keep that left hand away from your torso a bit, but that's being pretty picky.

 

[JimG.]

So how about this PIC of me from 1989...?? :lol:

I ski a LOT differently now...
Those were wham, bam, slam days

Pic of the week!

 

[Greg]

So how about this PIC of me from 1989...?? :lol:

I ski a LOT differently now...
Those were wham, bam, slam days

Pic of the week!

I bet D never thought that he'd be sharing that pic with folks from all over the Northeast when it was taken.

 

[JimG.]

Well, it's only fair I give everyone a chance to tear my form apart too:

http://forums.alpinezone.com/module...ame=gallery&file=index&include=view_photo.php

Fire away!

 

[dmc]

One more...

 

[Brettski]

I just sitting here trying to figure out which way the yard sale ended up.

Good upper body though.

Did you take out he camera person?

 

[dmc]

I just sitting here trying to figure out which way the yard sale ended up.

Good upper body though.

Did you take out he camera person?

To get a good shot in the bumps - you gotta be close..
No cameramen were hurt in the taking of that photo...
I fact they used to say "COME RIGHT AT ME" and smile!

 

[Greg]

One more...

I don't know about the cross, but them's is some funky duds...

 

[dmc]

I don't know about the cross, but them's is some funky duds...

Back in the day we'd sew patches onto our knees... It looked cool in the bumps...

I was a hardcore bumper before my back started to hurt and i switched to snowboarding...

 

[Greg]

Well, it's only fair I give everyone a chance to tear my form apart too:

http://forums.alpinezone.com/module...ame=gallery&file=index&include=view_photo.php

Fire away!

I don't think that pic does you any justice. I believe that was one of the last runs down Claire's that day and I think you were showing some fatigue.

 

[JimG.]

I don't think that pic does you any justice. I believe that was one of the last runs down Claire's that day and I think you were showing some fatigue.

A little tired, funky hardpack/icy/loose snow conditions.

It's why I chose that specific shot...those are the things that bring out one's deficiencies. Not keeping my chin up enough so I'm bending at the waist and getting a bit in the backseat.

Interestingly, here's another shot from the last run of the day:

http://forums.alpinezone.com/module...ame=gallery&file=index&include=view_photo.php

That's a little better.

 

[bvibert]

After watching the video the biggest thing is turn shape. Your turn shape is a J it needs to be more rounded. To do this you need to get your feet apart a little more but more important to move your hips over and downhill,of your feet, at the start of the turn. That is now happening at the midpoint or later.

Thanks, looking back at the video I think I know what you mean. I'll be working on this stuff this upcoming season for sure!

 

[awf170]

wow, i feel like I'm at Epic ski with this thread. I would submit a pic of myself skiing if I had one. I never have actually thought about my technique skiing, and havent taking a lesson in like 5 years, so yes i am probably one ugly skier, but I am having fun

 

[ALLSKIING]

Go at it.

And my wife..

 

[WICKEDBUMPER]

"Back in the day we'd sew patches onto our knees... It looked cool in the bumps..."

that still gets done today. It still looks cool.

"I was a hardcore bumper before my back started to hurt and i switched to snowboarding..."

That seems to be the M.O. of bump skiers. Of the people I ski bumps with, almost all of them have a board they say they will switch to when they cant take the pain anymore. We all still want to be on the snow but could never be content on the flat stuff anymore.

nice pics.

 

[dmc]

"I was a hardcore bumper before my back started to hurt and i switched to snowboarding..."

That seems to be the M.O. of bump skiers. Of the people I ski bumps with, almost all of them have a board they say they will switch to when they cant take the pain anymore. We all still want to be on the snow but could never be content on the flat stuff anymore.

nice pics.

Thanks.
Bump skiing technique has change considerably since the early 90's... I still go out and ski bumps a couple times a year but now I try and incorporate more of the modern stuff... Keeps me from slamming from bump to bump...
It's less about slamming and more about thinking now... At least for me...

 

[Brettski]

Changed? Nobody told me.

What changed?

 

[WICKEDBUMPER]

"Bump skiing technique has change considerably since the early 90's"
-100% totally agreed. different animal now. bashing seems to be a thing of the past. which is a good thing since I'm not as young as I used to be and stuff hurts at the end of the day now.

I have an old Busiweiser pro mogul tour event from Killington on video from the late 80s/early 90s-it doesnt even look like mogul skiing anymore. I bust it out once in a while and get a good laugh out of it.

 

[dmc]

Changed? Nobody told me.

What changed?

The way you keep your skis on the ground and don't fly from bump to bump(slamming)...
Just pressing/keeping my tips down over the back of the bump has saved my back..

 

[JimG.]

The way you keep your skis on the ground and don't fly from bump to bump(slamming)...
Just pressing/keeping my tips down over the back of the bump has saved my back..

Word bro...knees too.